Pages in '09 merge problem

I have iWork '09. In Pages I have created a document which is essentially a business letter. It contains my name, company, and our address and phone number. I'd like to be able to easily add the information of a single contact from the Address Book.
So I'm not looking to make 200 letters. Just 1 letter. I want to be able to select a single contact from Address Book and have that fill in the fields.
Now, I have added Merge Fields, but they don't seem to work. The Address Book contacts are from Exchange 2007. Address Book is syncing my contacts from my Exchange account if that matters.
Tried searching and reading the help docs in 09 and can't figure this out at all. Any help out there for this?
Thanks in advance,

What I did sounds kind of complicated, but it resolves the problems.
1. I disconnected the sync between address book and Exchange
2. I used Blackberry Desktop Sync to take the contacts from the BB into the Address Book.
Now all of them work just fine.
3. I always create my original contact in HighRise, which is my CRM software. I can easily get a vCard from Highrise and just drop it into Address Book and then sync that with my Blackberry. It's not 100% OTA like I had, but it's totally fine. And it gives me a good working Mail Merge which is essential for me.
If I just correct the issue, I'll have to always do it for every card that gets so much as an update. That's too much trouble. Clearly there are bugs between Address Book and Exchange. I didn't have this issue with Entourage, but I prefer the Mail Merge in Pages.
Anyway, I'm making sound worse than it is. It's actually not bad. I sync my Blackberry for music and podcasts anyway. So it grabs contacts as well. Not a problem, I'm syncing anyway.
Thanks Peter. Couldn't have solved this without you!
Best,
Pancake

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